u/14themoney24theroad

I have about 10 years experience in restaurants and hospitality. In recent years I tried to breakout from that and worked some admin roles.

I have two resumes, my main one that focuses on my admin and ‘professional’ jobs, and a second that focuses on my decade of being a server. I’m looking for evening work now as a server so I’ve been handing out resume B.

I was wondering if this is a bad choice? Given there may be some gaps with it. I would love to put everything on one resume but it would be longer than 2 pages, which I’m told is a big no-no. I do say in my email when handing them out that it is my restaurant focused resume. Thanks!

Hi all, 30f here.

The past 15 years I’ve worked a lot in food service and hospitality. I wanted to get out of it because it was starting to feel thankless and taking a toll on my body.

I went back to school twice to take business administration and geographic information systems.

With my business admin, I took some seasonal social media marketing jobs but I felt like I wasn’t good at it because a lot of them required you to also be a graphic designer, which I’m not, and I felt like my product was always sub par.

I then took a course in GIS because I have a love for geography. I managed to land some short term contract with it but I’m back to working a survival job.

I realized even though those topics might interest me, I have a really hard time having an office job. My posture is poor, nothing feels urgent or exciting, meetings make me wanna ‘Ill my self, and I feel mentally exhausted when I’m off.

Part of me does miss restaurants because I think I do like the hustle of it but if it’s a perfect world I could pick my shifts and maybe I just need to find a way that doesn’t hurt my joints.

I think what I really want is to own my own spot and have this hybrid restaurant and detached accommodations that could be like a vacation destination. But with the prices of everything, maybe it’s just a pipe dream.

If I’m working for someone I would love to be home and in my pjs by 8pm but I feel like that’s just a dream.

Sorry I needed to vent and I hope this is the ok place for it.